2.5 million people have fled Ukraine since Russia’s invasion, and another two million have been internally displaced as a result of the conflict, according to the United Nations.
Filippo Grandi, the UN Refugee Agency’s chief, blamed the mass displacement on a “senseless war” that began on February 24.
“The number of refugees from Ukraine has tragically reached 2.5 million today,” said UNHCR chief Grandi in a tweet.
“We also estimate that about two million people are displaced inside Ukraine. Millions forced to leave their homes by this senseless war.”
Paul Dillon, spokesman for the UN’s International Organization for Migration, said the two and a half million people who had fled Ukraine included 116,000 nationals from other countries.
More than 37 million people lived in Ukrainian territory under the administration of the central government in Kyiv before Russia invaded.
Poland has taken in more than half of those who have fled.
On Friday, Russian strikes attacked civilian sites in Dnipro, Ukraine’s core city, as Moscow’s troops moved closer to the capital, Kyiv, which has lost half of its estimated 3.5 million people since the war began, according to Mayor Vitali Klitschko.